Two Drexel students want you to be able to buy yoga leggings made from plastic bottles
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We'll direct you to the "WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS" gif.
Ashley Revay and Erin Moffitt are just like you and me. They got "tired of purchasing overpriced leggings" to work out in (read: They caused a scene in Lululemon when it turned out the $108 price tag was for one freakin' pair of leggings, not four, this is highway robbery ... wait, that was just me, sorry), so they're creating a line of their own, but with a pretty rad environmental twist.
Their Chakra Fitwear items are made from recycled plastic bottles. The Kickstarter cites these stats:
It is estimated that it will take over 700 years for plastic in our landfills to decompose.
Globally, we consume 53 billion gallons of water each year. That's over 500 trillion plastic water bottles.
In 2011, around 802 thousand tons of PET plastic bottles were recycled nationwide, but more than two times as much PET was wasted. That's 1.9 million tons.
As well as the question we're all thinking: Plastic Bottles = Pants?
Here's how it works:
Their leggings will retail for between $55 and $65 online.
If they don't reach their goal, they tell me in an email: "We will still be fully dedicated to getting Chakra Fitwear off the ground. We plan to reach out to our potential wholesale partners and also to launch our website where we will continue taking pre-orders until we hit our target."
No matter what, it's cool to know that such technology exists, and it's been happening elsewhere for awhile. Perhaps larger retailers could follow suit.
Or we'll all keep polluting the earth with plastic and will have to do our yoga in $108 pants amidst the burning rubble of civilization. We'll see.
